The test application establishes a FIX session on a local host
using an instance of ThreadedSocketAcceptor/Initiator class. A FIX
message (NewOrderSingle) is repeatedly sent within the session. The
time of the FIX message travelling from the sending endpoint to the
receiving endpoint is measured and reported. This is the time which
is spent between Session::send() call and
MessageCracker::onMessage(). FIX session uses persistent disk
message store.

Message Send/Receive Latency

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz

Average message latency with FIX Antenna: 38
mcs (min: 34, max: 276)

Average message latency with QuickFIX: 146 mcs
(min: 141, max: 14528)

Conclusion: The message delivery time with FIX
Antenna™ QF Adaptor is 3.7 times less than that of the QuickFIX
library.

The test application establishes FIX sessions on a local host
using an instance of SocketAcceptor/Initiator class. A FIX message
(NewOrderSingle) is repeatedly sent into each of the created
sessions. The test ends once all of 1,000,000 messages are
delivered to the receiving endpoint. The test calculates the
throughput, that is the number of messages delivered per 1
second.

Message Throughput

Conclusion: The message throughput of FIX
Antenna™ with QF adaptor is 7.2 times more than that of the
QuickFIX using the single instance of SocketAcceptor/Initiator
class that hosts the sessions. With FIX Antenna™ you don't need to
decide how many of the SocketAcceptor instances to launch in order
to load your CPU cores with enough work. The scalability is
achieved automatically regardless the session grouping within
particular acceptor/initiator instances.